[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[David Froble]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> Richard Levitte wrote:
>> Den onsdag 21 september 2016 kl. 10:01:55 UTC+2 skrev Dirk Munk:
>>> Now keep in mind that access from the internet to your LAN is not
>>> limited to web servers etc. There can be TV cameras on your LAN allowing
>>> you to check what is going on at home. You may want to switch on the
>>> heating system or the air conditioning half an hour before you arrive
>>> home, You may have a NAS on your LAN, and you may want to safe or
>>> retrieve documents from it over the internet. And so on.
>>>
>>> All these things require a proper network setup, and alas with IPv6 the
>>> IETF completely forgot to draft the proper RFC's.
>>
>> I'm curious, exactly what is it that you require?  Is it something 
>> that must exist at the IP level?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Richard
>>
> 
> I explained that in in the first posting of this thread.
> 
> In short, you will have global IPv6 addresses on you home LAN.

This concept is a bit like ethernet, where every ethernet device manufactured 
had a unique 12 character address.  However, I don't know if this was 
administered by some RFC, or by the group of cooperating companies that 
originally set up the concept.

> These addresses with accompanying DNS names have to be registered on a 
> public DNS server, i.e. the DNS server of your ISP.

Perhaps not all ISPs have a DNS service.

> There has to be a secure and automatic mechanism on your router that 
> will take care of this.

Nor do I understand why a router has anything to do with this?  I guess it could.

> Your ISP has to provide you with a (sub)domain where you can store your 
> entries.

Again, you seem to be saying this is the job of the ISP.  I'm not sure that is 
correct.

> That is the only way you can access devices on you home LAN by a DNS 
> name, like nas.levitte.org .
> 
> I notice that you have your own domain, but I assume you don't have your 
> own public DNS server. You will use the DNS server of some ISP or so. I 
> also have a domain, but it is registered at Hurricane Electric.

That's a bit different than what you've been writing.  Yes, some DNS service 
could translate a name into an IP address.  But, perhaps it's not the job of 
your ISP.

> So levitte.org should be registered at the nameserver of your ISP, 
> otherwise reversed name lookup is impossible.

So, I'm not sure that some official RFP is required.  Perhaps all that is 
required is that your local IP addresses are not masked by ISPs and such.  I 
think you, or someone, has referred to this as carrier grade NAT, or some such.